TrainerRoad, TrainingPeaks, TrainHeroic.... and Managing Time Efficiently

If you scroll down to around April 30th of this year you will see the Zwift announcement and the discussion following it.

First, I want to give huge Kudos to @OreoCookie for your solid response! :dizzy:

I did want to add to @SarahLaverty post that we also offer a free call with an onboarding expert! We get on a Zoom call with you and answer any questions you may have as well as get you all set up with your training plan!

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ooh that might be handy. I have put one together myself, but it’s possibly not the best and having proper advice would be great.

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TrainerRoad workouts tend to have a lot more structure. If that’s what you are missing, then I think you will like TR workouts.

E. g. there are some endurance workouts with long, steady intervals and others with short ones that only have smaller changes in power. I find that the former are good if I want to shut off my brain and just pedal. The latter are more engaging and I can use those for e. g. cadence or pedaling drills. With the Alternates feature I can select a workout of equivalent difficulty, but that features, say, shorter intervals instead of long, steady ones.

I’d advise to start easy and humble. It is easy to be overambitious and look at quick wins. In the end, I found that the two most important factors are consistency and rest.

When I decided to do structured training, the prospect of training three times a week seemed daunting. Now my body craves 5 workouts per week. To get there, I had to adapt my life and my body had to adapt to the demands, too.

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Oh totally agree, I’m not quite at the cracking stage yet, but I’ve managed to stick
Pretty consistent so far.

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays are my turbo days.

Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays are gym days (upper body for 2, core for 1)

Fridays are generally outside rides.

This does get moved around for odd things or life events, like my outside ride is Saturday this week and longer than normal so I’m skipping the gym workouts completely and indoor sessions are purely recovery (after advice here)

Turbo sessions are where I’m trying to adjust things around life and body so some weeks hard some weeks easier for recovery.

I’m lucky in the fact in the main no one starts in the office till 10:00 and school run drop off is 08:30, so I generally have 90 mins every morning to crack on, and that’s been working really well for me.

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